airdrop
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“We have to perform the airdrop as a surprise, so people don’t gather below,” Phille said earlier.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
The UK has been involved in previous efforts to airdrop aid into Gaza – a method aid agencies have cautioned is an inefficient way to deliver supplies.
From BBC ● Jul. 25, 2025
The airdrop is one of several events organised to mark the anniversary of Operation Market Garden, an ambitious military offensive designed to speed up the invasion of Nazi Germany and shorten the war in Europe.
From BBC ● Sep. 20, 2024
A Times photographer went along on a Gaza aid airdrop.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2024
On May 6,1 set up a base camp on the ice cap just northeast of the Thumb and waited for the airdrop.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
Efforts to reach people in areas still cut off are ongoing, with aid having to be airdropped into some places.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2025
The United States, France and others have airdropped tens of thousands of military-style meals into Gaza, but those deliveries have fallen far short of the 6.6 million meals that are needed each day.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 12, 2024
The U.S. military said that its planes airdropped more than 41,000 “meal equivalents” and 23,000 bottles of water into northern Gaza, the hardest part of the enclave to access.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 9, 2024
The authorities in Gaza said at least five Palestinians were killed and several others were wounded on Friday after packages of humanitarian aid that had been airdropped fell on them in Gaza City.
From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2024
Then adds, “A few years back, I remember hearing about a stranded cruise ship. They airdropped them Spam and Pop-Tarts. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather have MoonPies.”
From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman
The result is that an average food delivery by truck costs $180 per ton, while airdropping is a whopping $16,000 per ton, according to a U.S.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Countries have even tried airdropping aid from the sky — a tactic which aid groups say is a last-ditch resort because it can’t deliver aid in large quantities and also has led to deaths.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 25, 2024
The US Air Force has released footage of American cargo planes airdropping humanitarian aid into northern Gaza.
From BBC ● Mar. 6, 2024
Jordan began airdropping aid in November and has completed more than a dozen missions since, largely to resupply its field hospitals in Gaza.
From New York Times ● Feb. 27, 2024
Initially, the copycat protests consisted of individual students furtively leaving posters with those slogans on their campuses or airdropping fliers to strangers in public places — what activists called a “poster movement.”
From Washington Post ● Nov. 10, 2022
